The Million Dollar Man: Jack Dempsey

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Jack Dempsey was once instrumental in creating the first million-dollar gate. That momentous event occurred in 1921 when he faced Georges Carpentier, the French heavyweight champion. Dempsey went on to annihilate his opponent. Four more million-dollar gates would occur over the next several years due primarily to Dempsey’s savagery within the ring.

Jack Dempsey is The united states’s first mega sports hero. His style of boxing had never been seen before within the annals of pugilism. No other sports figure was once as commercially successful or caused as much controversy and hysteria as Jack Dempsey did within the 1920s. Dempsey left home when he was once only fifteen searching for a new beginning. He found it within the rough and tumble mining towns scattered all over Utah and Colorado. In between grueling jobs as a miner, Dempsey fought somebody and everyone.

In 1919, Dempsey destroyed champion Jess Willard in three rounds to transform the brand new heavyweight king. The savage beating Willard suffered within the first three minutes of the fight is regarded as by many to be the worst punishment ever received in a single round by a heavyweight champion. Herein lies the unbelievable story of a man singularly possessed to transform a world-class prizefighter.

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